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    Temporal indexing of divine acts is incompatible with str... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Commitment to divine simplicity entails a commitment to divine timelessness.

    Temporal indexing of divine acts is incompatible with strict timelessness but compatible with a weaker reading of simplicity.

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    • 1.Strict timelessness requires God to lack temporal properties entirely, making temporal indexing (e.g., 'God acts at t') literally nonsensical.
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    • 2.Weaker simplicity permits God's identity to remain unified while allowing relational properties like 'creating the world at time t'.
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    • 3.Classical theology struggles reconciling divine immutability with creation unless acts are indexed to times without temporal succession in God.
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    • 1.If God truly indexes acts to times, God possesses temporal properties, which contradicts even weaker readings of divine simplicity.
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    • 2.Relational properties grounding temporal indexing still introduce composition and dependency, violating the core commitments of simplicity doctrine.
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